Hugh Cobb - Dry Bones

Often I wonder
about my bones:
dry & fragile
after eons of
geologic time.
Found by some
future archaeologist,
handled delicately with
brush & gloves,
will they shatter
to dust
when exposed to light,
like my oftimes
shattered heart?

(Copyright 17 October 2005)

Hugh Cobb

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